State officials can't guarantee that hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians will have the photo identification they'll need in time for Election Day, a lawyer for the planitffs in the Voter ID hearing told a Commonwealth Court judge this morning.

"The state cannot offer any assurances ... because they just don't know," Witold Walczak, the legal director for the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union told Judge Robert E. Simpson in a more than hour-long closing argument this morning.

Walczak's argument came at the end of more than a week of dramatic testimony in which lawyers opposing Pennsylvania's new Voter Identification law attempted to prove that hundreds of thousands of voters could be turned away at the polls in November.

Opponents of the law, which went on the books in March, have asked Simpson, a former Northampton County Court judge, to issue an injunction to keep it from taking effect. They argued that there'd be no harm to the state if that happened, but there would be irreparable harm to voters if he did not grant the request.

"These are not hypotheticals. These are real people," Walczak said. "There are real victims of this law."